The united states thought that part of the purchase of louisiana included a strip of land along the gulf of mexico called

Florida

On October 27, 1810, U.S. President James Madison proclaimed that the United States should take possession of West Florida between the Mississippi and Perdido Rivers, based on a tenuous claim that it was part of the Louisiana Purchase

deists, human beings can know god only via reason and the observation of nature, but not by revelation or by supernatural manifestations (such as miracles

i'd assume india mainly because of how isolated japan was.   plus it is a whole china away.